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Cornell Haynes Jr., known as Nelly. His hometown was St. Louis
Missouri.
Nelly was born November2, 1978.
When Nelly was about eight, his parents had gotten a divorce.
He had lived with his father for about a year. His father kept him
until he couldn't afford to keep him. So then he lived with his mother
and her boyfriend in University City. He said that he had stayed with
them but it didn't work out for him. So he was always living with
different people but mostly his friends and grandparents.
While he was a kid he moved to about eight different schools, so he would
always be the new kid. Nelly would get into fights alot, but when he went
to the high in University City, he got interested in baseball. By him
staying in sports like baseball, they kept him out of trouble. He even
liked to do storytelling and writing rhymes. When he was ten he wrote a
song called "im fresh." He went back to the drawing board on it
because he thought it was bad.
A little after he started high school, he formed a rap group called the
St. lunatics. He had formed the group with his high school pals; Big
lee, Kyjuam, Murphy Lee, and city spud. In 1996, they scored a regional
hit with the self-produced single called Gimmie what you got, The group
got frustrated with the failing to get a record deal. So what they did
was, they decided that Nelly had a better chance in getting a record deal being
a solo artist.
Everything paid off, when Nelly caught the attention of a record company
called Universal. Universal released his album, country grammar in 2000.
The album stayed on the top of the US album charts for seven weeks.
Nelly's goal was to put St. Louis and the St.lunitics on the hip-hop map.
He had said that even though he was a soloist, he would always be part of the
St.lunitics. In 2001, the St.lunitics came out with their album called
Free City. It features the hit Midwest swing.
The following summer Nelly made his second album called nellyville.
The album hit the top of ten billboard charts. While this happened the
Neptune's, produced the lead single Hot in here. Few rap artists could
get that many numbers.
A little after, he came out again with another song called Iz u (from his
stopgap dirty versions remix album.) at the same time he made a song with
Murphy lee and p. diddy called shake ya tail feather (from the Bad boys two the
soundtrack) this kept him in the spotlight while he started to work up on
two-disc sweat-suit project. The double album dropped in the fall of
2004. When the CD's had came out, a few of the singles became popular
already; my place which was a slow jam. And the other hit was
called flap your wings, which was a club jam.
Facts:
Nelly had a million dollars worth of stuff stolen from his room at
Aladdin hotel, in Las Vegas in 2003.
Nelly has his own clothing line called vokal.
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